"crop" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Monsanto executives say most of the original claims - including those that said even farmers who used conventional seeds were harmed by biotechnology crops - have been dismissed.
- Five years ago, Europe placed a moratorium on approving biotechnology crops.
- There are limits to the usefulness of the new technique, because it is not yet highly efficient, and measures beyond gene transfer are required in making biotechnology crops.
- That first biotechnology crop, the 1994 Flavr Savr tomato, had a consumer-friendly trait: delayed rotting.
- But many say that biotechnology crops are so pervasive that it would be prohibitively expensive, and in some cases, nearly impossible, to eliminate them entirely.
- Over the last few years, biotechnology crops have come to dominate the food industry.
- As a result, the Grocery Manufacturers of America estimates that about 70 percent of grocery-store food may have been made with biotechnology crops.
- Some of the world's largest food producers have already shaken things up by saying they will not use biotechnology crops this year.
- "There's an elevator in Nebraska looking for non-G.M. They want 98 percent purity, and they won't get it," he said, because biotechnology crops are everywhere.
- But he predicts that opposition to biotechnology crops will eventually disappear.
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